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Re: Loading Standard Packages

• To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
• Subject: [mg8539] Re: [mg8467] Loading Standard Packages
• From: Kristina Pawlikowski <pawlikk at wl.wpafb.af.mil>
• Date: Sat, 6 Sep 1997 23:16:09 -0400
• Sender: owner-wri-mathgroup at wolfram.com

Not sure if this is what is causing your problem, but there is a difference
between ` and '.  For loading packages, I believe that Mma requires you to use
`. 

>Sorry that this is a really newbie question, but I can't seem to load any of
>the standard add on packages.  Well, that's not really true...  Let me
>explain.
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>I wanted to play around with the graphics, so I evaluated:
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><< Graphics'Polyhedra'
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>Which should have loaded the package.  However, the response I get back is:
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>Get::noopen : Cannot open Graphics'Polyhedra'.
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>This is the response I get back no matter what add on I try to load.
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>The really odd thing is when I go into the help, and look in the add-on's
>book, and evaluate:
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><<DiscreteMath`CombinatorialFunctions`
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>in the help browser itself.  This works fine!
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>I then go back to my notebook where I tried to load the polyhedra package,
>and strangely enough, it loads just fine as well...
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>Obviously, I'm missing some initialization step, but I can't seem to find
>out what it is...
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>If someone could help me out on this, I'd be much obliged.  Oh, and if I
>could get a pointer to the docs where all this is cleared up, I'd be very
>grateful...
>
>Thanks,
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>Hal
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